28 May 2009

On the topic of cross-dressing

The afternoon radio hosts on the channel I listen to are talking about cross-dressing.

Why is it such a taboo when men cross-dress? Who said that this was bad? Women do it every day. I'm doing it right now in fact. Where did this idea come from that it was a "problem" in the mental sense if a man wants to wear a dress? A man who wears a dress is seen to have "issues" and should go to counseling to fix the problems he has. Why? What if he just likes the comfort of wearing dresses? Kilts, hello?

2 comments:

  1. It's because people(namely men) cannot comprehend why men would want to lower their status'. We live in a patriarchal based society so women are told to submit to men, thereby we are inherently lower than men. For a man to dress in women's clothing is for a man to reject his male privilege(though many argue that this is impossible but that is a debate for another day) and choose to live in a lower class.

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  2. dresses are damn comfy. breezy, too. I think the man-skirt should have caught on by now. we live in an "enlightened" society in which equality is prized. if a woman can throw off the constraints of her gender, then a man should be able to also.

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